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- Publication date
- 1954
- Usage
- Public Domain
- Topics
- Edward D Wood Jr, Mystery, Crime Thriller, Steve Reeves, Delores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Ed Wood
- Publisher
- Howco
- Item Size
- 1.2G
Jail Bait (1954) Directed by Edward D Wood Jr. A Howco Release
A vicious criminal uses plastic surgery to escape the police.This movie features Steve Reeves (undubbed).
This is the original version of the film released in 1954. This film was registered for copyright (1954 LP3883) and never renewed. It entered the public domain on 1 January 1983.
A vicious criminal uses plastic surgery to escape the police.This movie features Steve Reeves (undubbed).
This is the original version of the film released in 1954. This film was registered for copyright (1954 LP3883) and never renewed. It entered the public domain on 1 January 1983.
- Contact Information
- <a href=http://www.archive.org/details/TheVideoCellarCollection>The Video Cellar Collection</a>
- Addeddate
- 2010-01-15 11:51:00
- Color
- b/w
- Director
- Edward D Wood Jr
- Identifier
- JailBait
- Run time
- 71
- Sound
- sound
- Year
- 1954
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(22)
Reviewer:
Jack Webb714
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June 14, 2024
Subject: Enjoyable
Subject: Enjoyable
I found this enjoyable. The usual Ed Wood stuff; odd dialogue, odd sets and just an odd vibe. I love the night scenes with the old cars and such.
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Fun to watch the actors.
Ed Wood did something very few people ever do. He succeeded at being a filmmaker. We still enjoy his films. RIP Mr. Wood
Ed Wood did something very few people ever do. He succeeded at being a filmmaker. We still enjoy his films. RIP Mr. Wood
Reviewer:
Geezer74
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December 16, 2022
Subject: Huge fan of Ed Wood
Subject: Huge fan of Ed Wood
I love his earnestness,and the poor dialog,and the "actors." Never could figure out why Lyle Talbot was in Woods movies.Maybe had the foresight to know
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the movies were god-awful,but still,people would see him,and have fun,and become a Wood fan.
Reviewer:
scottdoe
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January 10, 2022
Subject: It was so bad.....
Subject: It was so bad.....
it was great lol Bad acting at it's finest. Fun to watch knowing the background of Ed Wood
Reviewer:
deanmyrick
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December 7, 2021
Subject: Shitty copy
Subject: Shitty copy
A very shitty copy of a possibly decent movie. :(
Reviewer:
Haxo Angmark
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June 11, 2021
Subject: lingerie at Iwo Jima
Subject: lingerie at Iwo Jima
before making going to Hollywood and making exceptional movies like this, Ed Wood was a US Marine in WW2. He is probably the only soldier who fought through
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the entire battle of Iwo Jima wearing a bra and panties under his uniform.
Reviewer:
ohrabbits
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May 11, 2021
Subject: Good God!
Subject: Good God!
Somebody please stop that background music.
Reviewer:
Briesemeister1943
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May 8, 2021
Subject: SURPRISED I LIKED IT!
Subject: SURPRISED I LIKED IT!
After reading the negative reviews and having seen the Ed Wood film with Johnny Depp, I I expected to be bored but on the contrary, I had fun watching
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this. I laughed out loud at the blackfaced comedy bit, and was surprised at the ending. Now I know why there’s a cult for this person, he dares to be novel uncomplicated.
Reviewer:
robbes7rh
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July 12, 2020
Subject: Not Noir, Not Racy, Not Nostalgic...Not Good
Subject: Not Noir, Not Racy, Not Nostalgic...Not Good
B movies have a place in cinema. But there is only so much low brow inanity that can be served up in a single film before it becomes an embarrassing insult
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to the audience. From the very first scene to the last, each fails utterly to achieve any sort of verisimilitude. It's as if aliens from another world were trying tp depict humans that they had no basis for understanding. Many of the scenes, especially outdoors, look like home movies shot by Dad with his standard 8 mm b&w camera that he has no eye for using aesthetically. I was astonished that such amateurish detritus would be distributed by the Film industry to movie theaters with paid admissions. Sometimes a bad film from another era might seem cute or elicit some humor from our contemporary perspective. This film simply stupefies.
Reviewer:
shadowghost
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April 26, 2019
Subject: true life depiction
Subject: true life depiction
exceedingly excellent! easy to keep pace and good true to life action in a public nutshell
Reviewer:
Marveling
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August 10, 2016
Subject: Face Shots and Recognizable locations
Subject: Face Shots and Recognizable locations
What a surprise to recognize some locations that still exist. The Temple station is a real place. How corny some of the lines: "Hunny...I'm on duty."
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I was so tickled, I laughed out loud. Rating purely for entertainment value no cinematography.
Reviewer:
oldgaloot
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April 18, 2016
Subject: so bad it's good
Subject: so bad it's good
so only watch it if you want to see a bad movie. I give it no stars as giving it a "stars" rating is not really helpful. If you want to see a good film,
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it gets one star (lowest). If you want to see a good bad film, I'd give it 4 stars.
Reviewer:
mondofilm
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August 13, 2014
Subject: The Version that Played in Theaters
Subject: The Version that Played in Theaters
This is the version of the movie that played in the movie theaters. The 'Director's Cut' version that was released to home video removed the Black Face
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Musical scene and replaced it with footage of a vintage stripper from that era.
I don't care for Black Face shows but I also do not like seeing movies that had been re edited.
I don't care for Black Face shows but I also do not like seeing movies that had been re edited.
Reviewer:
I_h8_screen_names
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October 29, 2013 (edited)
Subject: Pathetic... even by Ed Wood standards.
Subject: Pathetic... even by Ed Wood standards.
Does anyone else think it is a hoot that the super SQUEAKY clean "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" used king of Ed Wood sleaze, Lyle Talbot on their show?
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You gotta love it!!!!!!!!
Reviewer:
Kodachrome
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December 21, 2012 (edited)
Subject: This movie is truly bloody awful.
Subject: This movie is truly bloody awful.
I wish I had read the reviews first, but with that title, what could go wrong?
Ron Ormond teamed up with theater owner Joy Newton Houck Sr., forming the ... Howco production company which produced this movie. The blackface act (@16:00) of Cotton Watts and Chick, was so offensive as to be parodiously funny. I am told that that scene is from "Yes, Sir, Mr. Bones", a 1951 Ron Ormond movie. This scene was just dropped in between scenes, serving no other apparent purpose but to add length to the film. In most movies, this tacking on of content unrelated to the plot would have ruined the story, but this movie only benefits from the intrusion.
As cosmico noted, the soundtrack of Jail Bait is also lifted from another Howco/Ormond production, "Mesa of Lost Women". The music is, as other reviewers have noted, horribly, unbelievably bad. There is also way too much of it. Like a hammer in the head – it feels so good when it stops.
On the plus side, it was nice to see a few locations filmed in 1954 in Temple City and Alhambra Ca. I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley – eventually.
Did I mention that this movie is bloody awful? Nobody would blame you if you hit the back button on your browser right now.
Ron Ormond teamed up with theater owner Joy Newton Houck Sr., forming the ... Howco production company which produced this movie. The blackface act (@16:00) of Cotton Watts and Chick, was so offensive as to be parodiously funny. I am told that that scene is from "Yes, Sir, Mr. Bones", a 1951 Ron Ormond movie. This scene was just dropped in between scenes, serving no other apparent purpose but to add length to the film. In most movies, this tacking on of content unrelated to the plot would have ruined the story, but this movie only benefits from the intrusion.
As cosmico noted, the soundtrack of Jail Bait is also lifted from another Howco/Ormond production, "Mesa of Lost Women". The music is, as other reviewers have noted, horribly, unbelievably bad. There is also way too much of it. Like a hammer in the head – it feels so good when it stops.
On the plus side, it was nice to see a few locations filmed in 1954 in Temple City and Alhambra Ca. I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley – eventually.
Did I mention that this movie is bloody awful? Nobody would blame you if you hit the back button on your browser right now.
Reviewer:
Goldies
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December 31, 2010
Subject: Jailbait
Subject: Jailbait
The acting in most cases was atrocious and the Mexican-sounding soundtrack was a laughable mismatch. I wasn't sure if the ridiculous music was coming
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from a radio or if the film makers were actually serious.
Examples of the music ruining the scenes were when they broke in to do the robbery and then when they arrived back at his girl's place afterwards
Goldies
Examples of the music ruining the scenes were when they broke in to do the robbery and then when they arrived back at his girl's place afterwards
Goldies
Reviewer:
doowopbob
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December 30, 2010
Subject: ....How Did..
Subject: ....How Did..
...Skinny Geeky Steve Reeves Beef Up So Fast For The Italian Sword & Sandle Flicks..?..Any Idea..?..Delores Fuller Is In My Autograph Collection..She
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Was Ed Wood's Girlfriend..Oh. Prunella..!
Reviewer:
KAJ1959
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November 3, 2010
Subject: Film Noir, Ed Wood Style!
Subject: Film Noir, Ed Wood Style!
The title is a misnomer - you expect to see a 50s-style sexploitation programmer called "Jail Bait" - but it has more of a plot than your average Ed Wood
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flicker, namely Plan 9 From Outer Space. Like that movie, the dialogue is a bit out in left field and the acting - except for Lyle Talbot's - amateurish and stilted. The sets are less cheesy than Plan 9's cardboard airplane cockpit; actual Los Angeles locations were used. The addition of a minstrel show routine is superfluous and gratuitous, but when is anything in an Ed Wood movie never superfluous?
With a more competent director and scenarist, we would have a better movie even though the plastic surgery angle makes for a compelling plot. However, this is Ed Wood, and our expectations are not always high, but Jail Bait is one notch above the usual incompetent Ed Wood cinematic exercise. Being his only foray into one of my favorite genres - film noir - also helps, and I've never seen a film noir I didn't like. Good little B- picture.
With a more competent director and scenarist, we would have a better movie even though the plastic surgery angle makes for a compelling plot. However, this is Ed Wood, and our expectations are not always high, but Jail Bait is one notch above the usual incompetent Ed Wood cinematic exercise. Being his only foray into one of my favorite genres - film noir - also helps, and I've never seen a film noir I didn't like. Good little B- picture.
Reviewer:
Dr Feel Rotten
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October 25, 2010
Subject: J..J..Jail Bait?
Subject: J..J..Jail Bait?
This has NOTHING whatever to do with the title and the title probably should be titled, "How to not act" or "How to not write a script", but it oddly will
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draw you in and have you expecting a different plot at almost every turn till the end which then ends ultra predictably. Almost as predictable as whether the sun will rise in the east.
Reviewer:
trilby1989
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October 23, 2010
Subject: From GnarlyWood Land
Subject: From GnarlyWood Land
A gnarly Woodsie twisted tale
To which the majors said "No sale".
But Ed would do what Ed Wood do
To make his noir style pic come true.
Perhaps the continuity
Is ... not what you'd expect it be;
The acting poor; some lines are trite,
But Ed was sure his vision right:
To make some bucks and on the cheap
Ed Wood would spread the BS deep.
To which the majors said "No sale".
But Ed would do what Ed Wood do
To make his noir style pic come true.
Perhaps the continuity
Is ... not what you'd expect it be;
The acting poor; some lines are trite,
But Ed was sure his vision right:
To make some bucks and on the cheap
Ed Wood would spread the BS deep.
Reviewer:
I_loved_this movie!
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September 7, 2010
Subject: pretty bad
Subject: pretty bad
It's a pleasant feeling when you reach the end and the flamenco guitar stops.
Reviewer:
moviedivatoo
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May 11, 2010
Subject: about this movie...
Subject: about this movie...
Cheesy, low budget, sooo Ed Wood! The closest thing to an actor is Lyle Talbot.
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